CADD: Black Phoenixing: Dancing Through the Ruins

Name: CADD: Black Phoenixing: Dancing Through the Ruins
Start: 2026-02-20T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-22T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University

Schedule

Fri, 20 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 am to Sun, 22 Feb, 2026 at 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University | Durham, NC

The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance Conference (CADD) seeks scholarship that speaks to permanence and subversiveness in Black Dance traditions for its 2026 Conference, "Black Phoenixing: Dancing Through the Ruins." We ask: how do the dances of our ancestors move through our descendants and how do our legacies inform the way we embody creative gesture? How do we recognize the "Phoenixing" of Africa in our current dance practices? How do we rise to the future? What remains today, and what sustains us? How does our connection to our ancestors transform the way we conjure dance?
FREE registration for Duke faculty, staff, and students! The box office site will prompt you to enter your Duke ID for free registration. Registration includes access to all presentations, classes, workshops, meals, and the National Dance Theater of Jamaica performance on 2/20. Don't miss the 12 PM opening procession from the Nasher to the Von der Heyden Theater.